Swanie Nelson, CANOPY Trust

Working in social development (both internationally and nationally) and media for several years, Swanie Nelson is passionate about finding creative ways to enable youth to be all they can be.

Swanie will spend her World of Difference year working with the Care and Nurture of Pacific Youth Trust (CANOPY) to help Pacific youth in the South Auckland region through community events and leadership programmes.

Swanie's aim is to raise awareness of the Trust in the local community and create relationships with local businesses.  Her role will include setting up sustainable office management systems to cater for the Trust's growing needs, helping to develop a performing arts programme and working directly with the youth she and her husband refer to as ‘their own'. 

"The backing of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation gives me the unique chance to give back to the community I grew up in and do something that I love."

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